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Item Design solutions to improve resilience of metro vehicle to blast events(2018-12) El Koursi, El Miloudi; Bruyelle, Jean Luc; Seddon, Richard; O'Neill, Conor; POLIMEROSConsiderable effort is being devoted by researchers and stakeholders in order to improve the safety of metro systems with regard to terrorist attacks. The issue has been addressed by many researchers, taking into account the bow-tie model of safety management, in which the node is the terrorist attack, with on one side the causes of the attack (e.g. political issues, technical weaknesses) and on the other side the consequences (e.g. human, organisational, economical). The common goal is to implement a line of defence to isolate these causes and consequences, in order to prevent the attack from occurring and, should it happen, to mitigate its consequences as much as possible. This work takes into account the identified common attack methodologies and the behaviour of the surviving passengers in order to improve the situation management, assist the evacuation of and rescue to survivors. Moreover, technological improvements to the structure and critical systems of the vehicle have been devised and tested in real situation. This paper focuses particularly on the behaviour of people in blast situation, and presents the conclusions of the project on these effects and the related improvements of the vehicles design in order to improve resilience and survivability to blast.Item Improved resilience of metro vehicle design to blast and fire events(2013) Bruyelle, Jean Luc; Koursi, El Miloudi El; Seddon, Richard; O'Neill, Conor; POLIMEROSIn the framework of the European FP7 SECUREMETRO project, the authors have studied the occurrences of terrorist attacks against metro trains with the goal to reduce the number of attacks by making transport systems a less attractive target. In addition to the counter-measures already implemented to increase the resilience to terrorism, the SECUREMETRO project adds another layer of counter-measures aimed at mitigating the effects of an attack to the vehicles, should the others fail to prevent it. This work takes into account the identified common attack methodologies and the behavior of the surviving passengers in order to improve the situation management, assist the evacuation of and rescue to survivors. Moreover, technological improvements to the structure and critical systems of the vehicle have been devised and tested in real situation. This paper focuses particularly on the behavior of people in blast situation, and presents the conclusions of the project on these effects and the related design improvements.